Will You Be a Google Voice User?

Google Voice hasn’t opened to the public yet, but there’s lotsofspeculation that the search giant’s phone service could become available soon.

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Google Voice’s voicemail transcription feature

It allows users to link their home, work and cellphone numbers to a new number, whose voicemails they can check online or by text message. Users can also specify which device rings based on the caller, set up personalized greetings for different callers, and save and search calls and messages.

In April, Courtney Banks reviewed Google Voice for WSJ.com, saying it could be particularly valuable to consumers with multiple phone numbers and devices. The automated voice-to-text conversion, which it uses to transcribe voicemail messages for reading in an email-like interface, has some kinks to work out, however, she said.

Craig Walker, a group product manager at Google, told the WSJ in a March interview that Google Voice won’t immediately run advertising but might in the future.

Currently, Google Voice is only available to users of GrandCentral, an Internet-phone service Google bought in 2007. Will you be there when it opens? What features are you looking for?